Beauty from Ashes - A Continual Process

Swirling! That's my brain!  I have shallow thoughts and deep thoughts to share.  Don't read this if you don't want to race in a few different directions!  But maybe one of these trails will resonate with you?  I used to ramble only to my close friends, that was safe.  But God doesn't call us to safe.  And after we watch 21 men of God give their lives by bowing to none other than Jesus Christ, vulnerability in my blog is no where near dangerous!  But that's what I'm wrestling with, is my faith dangerous?  Do I live it with any risk?  That question makes anything I share incredibly safe.  I sit behind a key board in a warm home on an unseasonably cold winter snow day, and write out my heart.  That's why I am reading Radical again by David Platt, as well as The Life of George Mueller .  I'm hungry, that's good!  I want sell "it" all, the "stuff of our culture," and in place of "it" give a message of HOPE. My heart goes s...

The point isn't about the specific trial, but about His WORD, HIS PURPOSE, HIS GLORY.   THE WORD IS WHO HE IS!  AND.HE. IS. ALWAYS. AT.WORK. Isaiah 55:10-11 "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11 S o will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire," Already this year we have been encouraged by many verses that I want to pass along to anyone who needs a lift. Keep them coming.  Let's all keep them coming and going with each other because Hebrews 4:12 says, "For the Word of God is full of living power..."  Jeremiah 23:29 "Is not my word like fire," declares the LORD, "and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?"  John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was Go...